On ihc Foffil BwfS of Quxdrup'Js. 41^ 



ferula oF November, I faw milk iffue from her breaft; and, 

 as ihe had almoft recovered her ftrength, I aSvifed her to 

 let her infant try to fuck, and the milk was reftored. 



I have been particular in detailing this cafe, that your 

 Excellency, from the circumflances both of the nature o£ 

 the diieafe and of its caufe, which was probably a fioppagfi 

 of the floodings after delivery, might the better be enabled 

 Co judge of the medical virtue of carbonic acid gas ; and, 

 at the fame time, to fee the. reafons I have had for varying 

 the application. I was afraid of a putrefaction or univerfal 

 gangrene ; agamft which I prefcribed- bark ; and as the 

 latter could not prevent the extrication of the carbonic acid 

 gas, I added the fubftances neceffary to produce it. 



XVI. ExtraS of a 'Memoir on the Foffil Bones of Q?m~ 

 tlrupeds. By Cit. Cv ri£l\ From Bulletin des Sciences, 

 Wo. XVIII. 



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HE author's object: in this memoir was to collect, as 

 far as poifible, every information refpeeting the various 

 kinds of foffil bones hitherto found, whether feen by hini- 

 felf or defcribed by others ; to examine the fkeletcns, and 

 to compare them with thole of animals now exhting on the 

 globe, in order to determine how far they arc fimilar or 

 different. The following are the kinds which he examined : 

 I. The bones and tufks called by the Ruffians the bones 

 and horns of the mammoth. Such foffil remains are 

 found in various parts of Europe. This animal is a kind 

 of elephant nearly refembling that of Afia, but differs from 

 it in the alveoli of its tufks being longer ; that the angle 

 formed by its lower jaw is more obtufe, and that the la- 

 minae of which its grinders are compofed aye thinner. A 

 living animal really analogous to it is not known, though i« 

 has hitherto been confidered as a common elephant. 



a. The 



